Dividend Income Calculator
Project the dividend income your portfolio could pay as you keep investing, reinvest dividends and companies raise their payouts.
How the projection works
Each year your portfolio earns its yield, grows with share prices, and adds your contributions plus reinvested dividends. When dividends grow faster than prices, your yield on the portfolio drifts up.
Frequently asked questions
How much do I need invested to live off dividends?
Divide your annual spending by your portfolio’s yield. At a 3.5% yield, $40,000 a year of dividends takes about $1.14 million invested.
What is a dividend snowball?
Reinvested dividends buy more shares, which pay more dividends, while companies raise their payouts over time. Income compounds on both fronts, slowly at first, then quickly.
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For education only, not financial advice. Returns are assumptions, not promises; all figures are in today's dollars.